Seven decades after Captain Kirk (William Shatner) was lost in space, Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) and the crew of the USS Enterprise-D rescue an El Aurian physicist named Soran (Malcolm McDowell). Unbeknownst to Picard, Soran harbors a deadly plan that includes the destruction of the Enterprise and millions of lives. Now his only hope for a future rests within the Nexus... and a legendary Captain from the past.